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Artists you should listen to: RURUTIA

Gandel — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 12:43:53 +0800

The first time I heard her voice is after I finish watching the anime, Karas. The ending theme is Selenite sang by her, it was sooo very nice, I like it very much but didn't go discover more about her. Few months ago I wiki about her and got the names of the albums and I download a few of her albums from the internet. They were AWESOME!!! her voice is very unique. I used to like Utada Hikaru, now Rurutia's my favourite! And when I think her voice and song is all that good enough, I discovered that her lyrics are very interesting also, they are not the typical love lyrics u found everywhere, a few is about distorted love, I haven't read all her lyrics but I show u 1 example:

QUOTE

...
beloved child, forever sleep embraced in my heart
I'll never set you free again, immature as you are
forget about her
so that her rough, coaxing voice will never again caress your ears,
I've strangled her

we'll be fine, just the two of us; we don't need anyone else
only I can satisfy you
I'll bind your legs with chains of silver,
so that you will not commit the same mistake

beloved child, drink of the sweet, pulsating nectar in my heart
I'll never again take my eyes off of you, immature as you are
don't worry about her anymore
if once more she reaches forth to steal you,
I'll shoot her to death with these hands
...

I never thought the song so nice can have such meaning!!! If u don't understand Japanese you can't really tell from her song! I felt it's gothic, and when u combine the song and the meaning, the feeling multiplies! you get what I mean? I mean I love it much more than before!!!

Sorry if I write too much, the point is:
If u didn't know about this artist, go listen to her song, and discover more about her. She is not as famous as she supposed to be, we all know about YUI, Utada Hikaru, Ayumi (lol, I can just name these few), but little of Rurutia... She has that quality!!! Btw, don't get the wrong impression from her album cover, her real person is quite pretty

Read this!!! (Artists you should listen to: RURUTIA)
http://unchained.nu/blog/?p=307

Go download!!!
sorry, link removed

Replace the audio of a mkv file

Gandel — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 23:24:51 +0800

Hi, I have 2 different formats of Karas (anime OAV), one is downloaded from tudou.com which is in flv format, the other one is download from torrents which is in mkv format. The mkv format has good quality video, but!!! I don't like the voice over in English, the feels not there... so what I want to do is extract the sound from flv files (several sound files) and replace the audio of mkv file with those, anyone know how to do that? please show me how to extract sound from flv as well... thanks.

How animator draw the line art?

Gandel — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 22:01:45 +0800

Does anyone know how animators draw the outline of characters? like the anime type. Is there any fast way to draw the outlines other than using brush to draw it stroke by stroke... maybe Pen tool works, is that how they do it?

Cause rite now I am planning to do some kind of 2D animation, and this is my early problem, I am using brush to draw the outline just now, and it doesn't looks good unless I spent some more hours to it, and it's just 1 frame, I don't want to do it for 100 frames, that's just too cost ineffective, I am going to try Pen tool now... if anyone knows a better way, help me!

Anyone care to discuss the techniques, welcome here are post your opinions and views..

Thanks.